Nicholas Nethercote beba32cebb Specify rust lints for compiler/ crates via Cargo.
By naming them in `[workspace.lints.rust]` in the top-level
`Cargo.toml`, and then making all `compiler/` crates inherit them with
`[lints] workspace = true`. (I omitted `rustc_codegen_{cranelift,gcc}`,
because they're a bit different.)

The advantages of this over the current approach:
- It uses a standard Cargo feature, rather than special handling in
  bootstrap. So, easier to understand, and less likely to get
  accidentally broken in the future.
- It works for proc macro crates.

It's a shame it doesn't work for rustc-specific lints, as the comments
explain.
2025-03-08 08:41:09 +11:00
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The rustc_ast crate contains those things concerned purely with syntax that is, the AST ("abstract syntax tree"), along with some definitions for tokens and token streams, data structures/traits for mutating ASTs, and shared definitions for other AST-related parts of the compiler (like the lexer and macro-expansion).

For more information about how these things work in rustc, see the rustc dev guide: